Glaucous
Glaucous is a color that is bluish-green or bluish-grey. In botany it refers to a pale bluish waxy or powdery layer on a surface such as a leaf or a fruit. In birds it refers to a pale bluish grey color of the feathers, legs or some other part of the bird.[1][2]
Glaucous appears in the name of some plants and birds. For example, - Glaucous Gull, (Larus glaucescens) or Glaucous Macaw, (Anodorhynchus glaucus). In botany there is the Glaucous Sedge, (Carex flacca) and the Glaucous Michelmas Daisy, (Symphyotrichum laeve).
Often grapes, plums and other fruit have a glaucous waxy or powdery layer on the surface of their skin. That layer protects the fruit from water. It can be easily rubbed off.
- Glaucous-winged Gull RWD1.jpg
Gaucous Gull showing glaucous wing color
- A Black grape bunch.JPG
Black grapes showing glaucous bloom on their skins
- T. princeps 1.jpg
Trachycarpus princeps showing glaucous underside to leaves
Glaucous Media
- Close up grapes.jpg
Wine grapes with glaucous coating
- Plums.jpg
Plums with some glaucous coating visible
Sedum spathulifolium is a glaucous perennial herbaceous plant.
- Coquelicots - Parc floral 6.JPG
The glaucous leaves and seed pods of Papaver somniferum
- Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (13667579863).jpg
Glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus)
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Blue shark (Prionace glauca)
References
- ↑ [1] Collins On-Line
- ↑ Collins Concise English Dictionary,7th ed., HarperCollins, Glasgow. ISBN 9780007261123